Hubbard SUXS. I knew an old lady who gave away everything to SScientology and ended up cleaning toilets on the cult's yacht (probably have many yachts now). She was a innocent enough person - perhaps a little naive and certainly at first caught up in the heady race to go "Clear". When she was too old to do anymore work and she had no money left, no one cared that she fled the cult. She ended up living in subsidized housing and on her old-age pension. She lost her house and all material comforts - but I think the saddest part was she lost her kids b/c they wouldn't become part of the cult and they both died before her. (she was a friend of family member, which is why I know the bones of this story, I'm sure there is even more pathetic, sad details I don't know).

Someone said Cruise is the most powerful person in Hollywood right now. He controls a studio and has at his disposal what amounts to a small fascist state. BOYCOTT ALL CRUISE RELATED FILMS. Only the lack of money-making projects will bring him down. If people think SScientology won't be using Hollywood to promote their agenda - then they deserve to end up cleaning Cruise's toilets. FUCH Scientology.

Given Prada's euro origins, what we think in NA as bad is more like macabre/decadent/fairy tale good. (while there are moments of beauty, overall the trembling blossoms stink of sweet perfume, liking rotting lily petals) But this marketing effort is not necessarily a failure. Fashion houses are branding themselves to future high-end consumers - vacuous 12yr olds who will grow-up to be vacuous 20yr olds. We think that tweens' disposable income is targeted only by mass-marketers of walmart trash, but rich kids have to be marketed to as well.

James Luna Rules!!! James Lima - not so much.